The Dev team has to do something about the blatant bot/scripting

The Winter Spur event had tons of BOTs but you could run in between them and pick off the outlying spawn or jus spam Area spells. On ATL they are all bunched  together at the entrance and It's like wading through quicksand just to try to walk past them.

give it a week and they will have 1000s of hats and be done there

At least they made the drops so common that these hats are gonna be worthless in a week. I for one am happy to be able to get all the items quickly this go around.

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keven2002 said:

If nothing else these accounts should be actioned for using crappy scripts

Yes.

Went to take a look for myself. One of the SW tree bots. BTW spawn is on LVL 90. Their 'Current Battle Score'?



#209 of 210 well done. They should be banned for constantly spamming the tree that's causing 50 flamestrike animations every other second. BTW, who thought that was a good idea for that tree to be so spammy anyways? Oh yes our devs that don't play the game that's who.

Almost as if the, "constellation-that-shall-not-be-named" was stopped you would see the majority of this blatant cheating disappear overnight. Oddly enough, the amount of pushback I've gotten regarding flat out perma-banning without appeal/reprieve any player that uses the constellation pretty much means it's too late and they'd be banning a large part of the community. Between a rock and hard place when you let this shit go on like this for so long. Guess that's what ignoring it for so long does right @Mesanna.

Game desperately needs a first-party client that isn't a huge mess, yeah. The CC runs worse than ever, and the EC is an unsalvageable trainwreck.

It's the 2xx-3xx players in a small spot... UO wasn't meant to have that many players in a small area especially when they're all packet flooding the server with attack commands (and casting) using the constellation, basically a mini ddos. Servers can't handle it.

keven2002 said:

I don't think it gets much more obvious than this... it's 7am EST and the void pool cycle ended 3minutes ago and people are still spamming reapers/wildfire/EV/chiv spells.

This is just near the entrance; there is another spot with the same stuff going on.

If nothing else these accounts should be actioned for using crappy scripts; they could at least shut off when the void pool ends so it doesn't look as obvious.

LOL That's not bots then.  That's just players using macros unattended.  Careful what you ask for sometimes, you may find yourself advocating for action against yourself. 

Feigr said:

But these are just constructive thoughts.  I think the event is well done on the whole.

It was glaringly obvious that it's one of the worse they've released yet. It was rushed and these things, like you admit when you contradict yourself, the balance/drop rate wasn't even considered.

There's a balance between making events not a grind but not taking too long. You also have to take into consideration the rewards power and the fact it is a MMO; there needs to be some content/engagement value. The previous ToT and Spring event were fairly good at this balance:

• the Shogun event took longer to collect items but has more powerful rewards. More of a grind, very good rewards.
• the eggs from planting thorns were very quick to collect but the rewards were low tier repeats, most even deco/transmog. Very low bar to participate/earn, low end rewards.

This event? Incredibly easy to collect points but with balron bone armor one of the best (if not the best) ToT rewards ever, not to mention the other rewards. I can appreciate the fact that it's very easy to get rewards but there was ZERO consideration for anything in this event and it shows. It was clearly rushed and little thought put behind it.

(note I'm only referring to the Hat part of this event, not the seas)

So no, it is factually poorly done especially when you compare it to the past ToT/spring events.

You know what's interesting and would solve the massive botting and most of the issues with the hat part of this event, and all ToTs?

ACCOUNT BOUND POINTS/REWARDS:

Bots be gone
Who cares if the points easy to get, easier the better with an account bound system
Who cares if they didn't balance the reward cost for certain items
Who cares if they repeat a high end reward, gear up missed items and new/returning players faster
Could even highly reduce reward point cost since items would inherently have no gold value
Could even run them more often, again, gear up missed items and new/returning players faster
Able to transfer your items you earned and use them as you please like a true sandbox game
Just look at my old posts to see the other benefits. Perhaps run the spring events with account bound rewards @Kyronix

It's not a contradiction to have constructive feedback and enjoy something at the same time.  Go watch the kid's movie Inside Out if you need a refresher.

username said:

You know what's interesting and would solve the massive botting and most of the issues with the hat part of this event, and all ToTs?

ACCOUNT BOUND POINTS/REWARDS:

Bots be gone
Who cares if the points easy to get, easier the better with an account bound system
Who cares if they didn't balance the reward cost for certain items
Who cares if they repeat a high end reward, gear up missed items and new/returning players faster
Could even highly reduce reward point cost since items would inherently have no gold value
Could even run them more often, again, gear up missed items and new/returning players faster
Able to transfer your items you earned and use them as you please like a true sandbox game
Just look at my old posts to see the other benefits. Perhaps run the spring events with account bound rewards @ Kyronix

Why don't you pretend they are account bound and you would have less stress from worrying about what others have and what you can't sell.

No account bound items @Kyronix ;

Surely one of the developers has discord and belongs to the main uo group were scripts are openly sold 

Although the idea of strictly account bound items from these events is appealing, the problem I see with that is it would damage the economy.  So, they would take away from one part of the game to secure another. The answer I feel is what you first suggested - Take action on the accounts which are macroing unattended. Hell give a warning or two even, suspend, and ban. Not that hard when it's that obvious. Turning a blind eye to it does nothing for the game. 

username said:

You know what's interesting and would solve the massive botting and most of the issues with the hat part of this event, and all ToTs?

ACCOUNT BOUND POINTS/REWARDS:

Seriously just admit you hoarded a bunch of Balron armor and you're mad the value has cratered. There's literally no motive beyond economic for caring about the difference between easily obtained items that sell for relatively low cost, and easily obtained items that can't be sold at all.

My suggestion is since the UO leadership aren't even communicating, that it's time to go above their head and complain to their boss, Rob Denton.

Its not the scipters lol. Its the bots the multi acct losers and lack of proper server support and maintenance.